Quick Links : Mindat手册 The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Mindat Newsletter [Free Download]

主页关于 Mindat Mindat手册 Mindat的历史版权 Who We Are 联系我们于 Mindat.org刊登广告

捐赠给 Mindat Corporate Sponsorship 赞助板页已赞助的板页在 Mindat刊登广告的广告商于 Mindat.org刊登广告

Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

搜索矿物的性质搜索矿物的化学 Advanced Locality Search 随意显示任何一种矿物 Random Locality 使用minID搜索邻近产地 Search Articles 搜索词汇表更多搜索选项

Mindat手册添加新照片 Rate Photos 产区编辑报告 Coordinate Completion Report 添加词汇表项目

Mining Companies 统计会员列表 Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations 矿物展及活动 The Mindat目录表设备设置 The Mineral Quiz

照片搜索 Photo Galleries Search by Color 今天最新的照片昨天最新的照片用户照片相集过去每日精选照片相集 Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Paralligatoridae ✝

Photos

Photo Gallery

Description

Paralligatoridae is an extinct family of neosuchian crocodyliforms that existed during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. It includes the genera Paralligator, Brillanceausuchus, Kansajsuchus, Shamosuchus, Scolomastax, Sabresuchus, Rugosuchus, Batrachomimus and Wannchampsus, as well as the yet-unnamed "Glen Rose form".

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralligatoridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4822163	https://www.gbif.org/species/4822163
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38374	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38374

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Paralligatoridae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Paralligatoridae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
-	Pseudosuchia
-	Suchia	Krebs 1974
-	Paracrocodylomorpha	Parrish 1993
-	Loricata
-	Crocodylomorpha
suborder	Crocodyliformes	Hay 1930
-	Mesoeucrocodylia	Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
-	Neosuchia	Clark 1988
suborder	Eusuchia	Huxley 1875
family	Paralligatoridae	Konjukova 1954

Scientific Name

Paralligatoridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Paralligatoridae	family	belongs to Mesosuchia	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Paralligatoridae	family	belongs to Mesosuchia	implied	Carroll, 1988
Paralligatoridae	family	belongs to Neosuchia	stated with evidence	Storrs and Efimov, 2000
Paralligatoridae	family	belongs to Eusuchia	stated with evidence	Turner, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

164 - 152 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Mesoeucrocodylia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pseudosuchia)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralligatoridae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Batrachomimus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Brillanceausuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Kansajsuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Paralligator ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Rugosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sabresuchus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Scolomastax ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Shamosuchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tarsomordeo ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Wannchampsus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Paralligator sungaricus (Sun, 1958)	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Paralligatoridae : *Paralligator sungaricus*
Kansajsuchus borealis Efimov, 1975	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Paralligatoridae : *Kansajsuchus borealis*
Shamosuchus sungaricus (Sun, 1958)	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Paralligatoridae : *Shamosuchus sungaricus*
Shamosuchus borealis (Efimov, 1975)	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Paralligatoridae : *Shamosuchus borealis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1954	Paralligatoridae Konjukova
1958	Paralligator sungaricus Sun
1966	Paralligatoridae Kuhn p. 85
1975	Shamosuchus borealis Efimov
1982	Shamosuchus borealis Efimov
1982	Shamosuchus sungaricus Efimov

Year	Name and Author
1988	Paralligatoridae Carroll
2000	Paralligatoridae Storrs and Efimov p. 410
2000	Shamosuchus borealis Storrs and Efimov p. 411
2013	Paralligatoridae Montefeltro et al.
2015	Paralligatoridae Turner

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Sun A.-L. (1958) A new species of Paralligator from Sungarian Plain, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2 4, 277-280

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Storrs G. W., Efimov M. B. (2000) Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 402-419

Montefeltro F. C., Larsson H. C. E., et al (2013) A new neosuchian with Asian affinities from the Jurassic of northeastern Brazil, Naturwissenschaften 100 9, 835-841 doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1083-9

Turner A. H. (2015) A Review of Shamosuchus and Paralligator (Crocodyliformes, Neosuchia) from the Cretaceous of Asia, PLoS One 10 2, e0118116 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118116

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Obsolete Names Synonymy List References

Go to top of page